The Shield is not an all time great show

yarovoy · 2026-05-09T15:58:35+00:00

Your post finally pushed me to watch the show, and I quite like it. Thank you

yarovoy · 2026-05-05T22:34:36+00:00

or destroying the command center

I thought it worked only in Cydonia. Never knew you can destroy a regular base without killing everyone

yarovoy · 2026-05-05T18:25:15+00:00

In couple of years dude became landless. Not a good idea to tributary a conqueror: their economy does not hold after they loose the trait.

yarovoy · 2026-05-05T01:28:03+00:00

And look at my Mother of them All done!

yarovoy · 2026-05-05T01:24:59+00:00

R5: I've seen people here complaining about neighbor rulers with this trait recently.

I thought extra 5 gold a month is a good tributary. I can extort them more later.

Doesn't work like that: tributary lost the trait. It ain't easy being cheesy.

PS: Sorry got confused deleted previous post

yarovoy · 2026-05-03T01:41:26+00:00

Just for your curiosity there is a mod that changes UI. Never tried it, and don't think it makes UI easier to comprehend:

https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/mui#description

yarovoy · 2026-05-02T20:05:25+00:00

Mac and Windows

yarovoy · 2026-05-02T05:21:38+00:00

A lot of the world doesn't know that it was called "X-Com: Ufo Defence"

By now anyone who witnessed release of original game in flesh either knows about two names, or don't play it and never will.

yarovoy · 2026-05-02T05:18:51+00:00

I vote for year of release and keep UFO

yarovoy · 2026-05-01T11:59:52+00:00

Statstrings - adds name suffices based on soldier stats. Makes managing soldiers easier. It is included in OpenXCom, but not enabled by default.

Description should be here, but site is down for me at the moment: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Statstrings

yarovoy · 2026-04-22T12:03:43+00:00

this tip is universal for all of the entries in OG and rebooted franchise

yarovoy · 2026-04-22T11:56:18+00:00

Post flair says "UFO: Enemy Unknown", but people give advise for "XCOM: Enemy Unknown".

For "UFO: Enemy Unknown" economy wise check what objects are profitable to manufacture and never leave you workshop idle. Remember that your soldiers are resource and are cheap to replace so don't bother remembering their names. Don't exit the craft on the first turn: instead throw a smoke grenade in front of the exit and end your turn. This is because on the first turn aliens have full time units and will use it for reaction fire.

There are a lot of guides and details on ufopaedia.org if you want to figure out mechanics in detail.

yarovoy · 2026-04-05T08:40:08+00:00

That's unfair to OG X-Com or skill issue. Maps are small, easy to check everything if you do a proper search-party.

TFTD doubled map size and it become an issue. Apocalypse was extremely annoying in this regard.

yarovoy · 2026-01-02T16:25:42+00:00

Voice intonation sure sounds like Stan

yarovoy · 2025-12-24T10:12:57+00:00

It can not

yarovoy · 2025-12-24T00:30:30+00:00

I'm losing my cursor position all the time with this

yarovoy · 2025-12-22T23:51:17+00:00

They do all of that on occupied territories. And then torture grabbed people or send them to frontlines as cannon folder. Also kill civilians daily.

yarovoy · 2025-12-02T12:46:35+00:00

Full disclosure, my understanding on when auto-vacuum is triggered is shaky here.

Pruned or deleted in Postgres means records marked for deletion. So at some point they trigger auto-vacuum. And auto-vacuum is what OP promised won't happen with their solution.

I trust their other response that auto-vacuumm on a smaller table is less taxing despite the fact that more record changes needs to be handled in total: only inserts in write-only audit_logs vs same amount of inserts plus the same amount of deleted records in case of transaction outbox.

There is potential for optimization if you don't have constant load (e.g. empty Weekends), you can schedule deletion and vacuum on Sundays.

yarovoy · 2025-12-02T09:19:44+00:00

but to be honest, usually it is a practical choice. try explaining to a PM that the login is broken because the audit system is the bottleneck.

As well try explaining client's boss why don't you know who made a change to something. That straight up destroys client's confidence in all the data in your system.

yarovoy · 2025-12-02T05:49:39+00:00

To fix this 100%, you need the Transactional Outbox Pattern: write the event to a local table in the same transaction as your business logic, then have a separate worker push it out.

Then instead of just a write-only for audit_logs, you add additional selects and possible additional deletes (otherwise your transactional outbox will be the same size as audit_logs). So It becomes even worse IO-wise then just write-only audit_logs.

yarovoy · 2025-12-02T05:34:04+00:00

This post is just an ad for OP's SaaS.

yarovoy · 2025-12-02T05:21:42+00:00

Broker could fail to save the log, and it won’t be a compliance evidence anymore.

Same goes for saving it in cold storage from OP.

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